ONE OF LATEST U-BOATS SUNK.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14634, 18 June 1918, Page 5

ONE OF LATEST U-BOATS SUNK.

(AustiralianVa&aity.z: Cable Assdolatfera., (Received ' JunV 18, 9.10 - a.m.) p 4 , - tONBGIN, June 17. A gi'im toid^of^ibhe destruction of one of /Germany's \ih6%t recent >Üboats, which % l- ; th9 last to leave Zeebfrugtfe 3b>sf ore ith©: ; <* -port was bottled .up;*- (Jut 'of the creW of forty only two swvivefr after .a feririhle struggle with v djeatli-if for ninety/ minutes' twenty fathonftrbelow thßiswrface, where the , vessel foundered >«ai tier striking . a mine. A 'nurn'bsr of th,#' ( crew committed suicide, believing there was no chance of leaving the submarine alive* The commander was one of the mosu expert inth^G^mansubmarine service. \ ..* Th<s< vstpl&iony&ritf Vthe delicate Nna^ cHmeryWof-gear/;" A portion of ih'i vessel was plunged into darkness. The engineer succeeded in putting the sub-^ marine in a horizontal position" and prevented her turning turtle. The water poure*d<lrf<aft. An attempt to Wow out the tanks .proved . unsuccessful ; tha vessel trotldi'r(otiyis>;^6,tlie Surface. The mrush of *water the only chance of escaping was to force open tire conning tower and forward hatchea and to trust to the compressed air to drive ( each_ man, torpedo-like, to- the !v3*%ro»>: < Afatpgott rife .U)T)eA one^of; the torpedo hatches was futjte, the outside> pressure being too great. The water moiinW higher#ereeping up thei men's legs The sea water .mftdng wijth the chemicals'in tile ajSbuniuiaters created ft psisonous gas and ,;theierew 'faced •■suffocation. The conditions became i, so terrible that some began to, lose reason -and thr^themn«n^<^iod $o shot'^hvfft^lf, bu;t missed; Five jumped, into ' *the^ water ' at. the fire and jumped into the water at the bottom of the vessel. • ~ ! " . (Received June 18. 10.20 am ) LONDON, June 17. I After super^man. effortSi^th^'iforward . :^Rt^fh of H)ie*cqnM!{? fc %weri } yias>-' forced pisl\k alive', efecapc* through th'e- hatch, 'As tliey renohi t^e surface the compressed' air jn. the liings.Sßuifst tMsluhgs. Twenty p« r with blood'ourdfing yells. A 'Britii twiwlep^piokied^ip tw<& survivors^ --. - - V